Pennsylvania: Facts and Figures

Pennsylvania is one of the top ten states in the country for exports, generating over $38 billion worth of goods exports in 2017. With two major city centers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, more than 15,000 Pennsylvania companies export goods across the globe each year. And nearly 90 percent of Pennsylvania's exporters are small and medium sized businesses.

Job Creation

In Pennsylvania, 1,398,000 jobs (18.4%) are supported by trade, including 176,514 jobs supported by manufactured goods exports in 2016.1

In 2015, 15,023 companies exported goods from Pennsylvania of which 89% were small- and medium-sized enterprises. In 2015, 300,800 people were employed by affiliates of companies at least 50% foreign-owned.2